How I Built Resilience: Sarah Harden and Lauren Neustadter of Hello Sunshine

Hello, everyone, and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. On these episodes, as you know, we're talking with entrepreneurs and other business leaders about how they're thinking creatively and doing their work differently right now. And today we're going to hear from two executives at Hello Sunshine. CEO Sarah Hardin and Lauren Newstadder, head of TV and film Hello Sunshine is a production company whose mission is to highlight female led films, TV shows, and books. It was founded four years ago by actor Reese Witherspoon, and it's already a big name in Hollywood. In fact, hours before we went live, The Television Academy announced this year's Emmy nominations and Hello Sunshine. Did pretty well.

Ripped from the headlines, breaking news. eighteen Emmy nominations this morning. Um the shows include Little Fires Everywhere, the morning show, big little lies. Loren, Sarah, welcome. Good morning. Good morning. Congratulations, eighteen Emmy nominations. Thank you. It was a great day. Yeah. So first of all, for people who don't know about the production company

Tell us about Hell Essentially a little bit more about it. Well, look, I think, you know, the company was founded with a driving mission and really a gap in the marketplace that Resaw, which was um to put women at the center of these stories. And I think when we started the company, we sort of embrace the complexity of wanting to do that in storytelling format. And you know, with Reese's book club particularly, you know, Reese is a huge reader. She reads all the book picks, and we love elevating female narratives from books and in other ways as well. Everything's pa and pas in in Hollywood right now. Films, T V just are not happening. It's not safe.

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